Dore Ashton
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Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art.
Biography
[edit]Ashton was born in Newark, New Jersey, on May 21, 1928.[1][2] She was the author or editor of more than thirty books on art, including Noguchi East and West, About Rothko, American Art Since 1945, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning[3] and Picasso On Art.[4] Ashton also contributed to many publications, including Art Digest. and worked as an art critic at The New York Times.[5][6] Ashton was one of the New York art critics who championed the New York School, whose members also included Harold Rosenberg and Barbara Rose.[7] Ashton's 1983 work on Mark Rothko, About Rothko, remains a source of much discussion about the artist.[8] Ashton's last book, David Rankin: The New York Years, on artist David Rankin was published in 2013.[9]
Ashton was a professor of art history at the Cooper Union in New York City and a senior critic in painting and printmaking at Yale.[2][10] Ashton received an M.A. from Harvard University.
Ashton died on January 30, 2017, at the age of 88 in the Bronx, New York City, New York.[11]
Awards and honors
[edit]Ashton received numerous awards, including Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in 1963 and 1969,[12] the Frank J. Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association in 1963 and a Ford Foundation Award in 1965.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Unknown Shore: A View of Contemporary Art. Little, Brown, 1962.
- A Reading of Modern Art. Case Western Reserve University Press, 1970.
- The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning. University of California Press, 1973.
- Rosa Bonheur: A Life and a Legend. The Viking Press, 1981.
- Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Harvard University Press, 1983.
- Out of the Whirlwind: Three Decades of Arts Commentary. UMI Research Press, 1987.
- Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views. Da Capo Press, 1988.
- A Critical Study of Philip Guston. University of California Press, 1990.
- A Fable of Modern Art. University of California Press, 1991.
- Noguchi East and West. University of California Press, 1993.[13]
- About Rothko. Da Capo Press, 1996.
- The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art. Kodansha USA Press, 1997.
- A Joseph Cornell Album. Da Capo Press, 2002.
- David Rankin: The New York Years. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013.
References
[edit]- ^ Gaster, Adrian (10 November 1977). The International Authors and Writers Who's who. International Biographical Centre. ISBN 9780900332456 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Dore Ashton,Cooper Union". Archived from the original on 2013-06-07. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
- ^ "NY School Review".
- ^ a b "Dictionary of Art Historians".
- ^ "Interview with Ashton".
- ^ "Dore Ashton Papers and Ashton New York Times".
- ^ "Art forum Ashton and Rose".
- ^ "Ashton on Rothko". PBS.
- ^ Ashton, Dore (4 July 2013). David Rankin: The New York Years. Macmillan Art Publishing. ISBN 978-1921394584.
- ^ "Dore Ashton, Yale".
- ^ "Dore Ashton (1928–2017)". Art Forum. Artforum International Magazine. 2 February 2017. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ "Dore Ashton Guggenheim Fellow". Archived from the original on 2013-07-01.
- ^ "Noguchi East and West".
External links
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- Dore Ashton interview about Philip Guston on YouTube
- Interview with Dore Ashton
- Dore Ashton, Brooklyn Rail
- Ashton essay on Toledo
- Ashton essay on Guadi, Criterion
- Interview with Ashton in Barcelona on YouTube
- New York Times obituary
- Papers at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library